Now dial. (Sc. and north.) [Cf. STRUNT a.; also Sw. dial. strunt stiff grass.] The fleshy part of the tail of an animal, esp. of a horse; also, rarely, that of a bird.
[1577: cf. STRUNT a.]
1610. Markham, Masterp., I. ciii. 205. Feele all downe the strunte of his taile with your hand.
1674. Ray, N. C. Words, Strunt: the tail or rump.
1679. Lond. Gaz., No. 1413/4. A gray Nag … with a sprig tail, and his Strunt groweth crooked towards the right buttock.
1788. W. H. Marshall, Yorksh., II. 357. Strunt; the dock of a horse, independant of the hair, also the tail of slaughtered cattle or sheep, when the skin is taken off.
1866. Brogden, Prov. Lincs., Strunt, the rump of a bird.
1884. G. S. Streatfeild, Linc. & Danes, Gloss. 368. Strunt = the denuded tail of a quadruped or bird.
1886. S. W. Linc. Gloss., Strunt, the bony, fleshy part of a horse’s tail. ‘It’s strunt’s so long; it’s a pity but what it were docked.’ ‘The hair’s cutten off close agen the strunt’s end.’
